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Kane, Velez, and Barabas  
Analyze the Attentive & Bypass Bias:  Mock Vignette Checks in Survey Experiments
Political Science Research & Methods


Analyses for this paper were conducted using both STATA v.17 (Mac) and R v. 4.2.1 (Mac)


All STATA code is featured in the “Stata Replication Code” .do file.  All STATA results are featured in the STATA log (.smcl) file. The STATA files reproduce Figure 2 from the main manuscript, as well as the descriptive analyses featured in Appendix A and Appendix B.  The  STATA files also allow for replicating the analyses featured in Table D1 (Demographic predictors of MVC performance), Appendix E (Validating MVCs using question timers and factual manipulation checks), and Appendix G (specifically, testing whether outcome variances significantly differ when an MV is (versus is not) featured).


All R code is featured in the “replication” .Rmd file. All R results are featured in the RMarkdown (.Rmd) file. The R files reproduce Table 4 and Figure 3 in the main manuscript. They also reproduce the following figures and tables in the Supplemental Appendix: Figure C1, Table E2, Table F1, Table F2, Table F3, Figure G1, Figure G2, Figure H1, Table I1, Figure I1, Figure I2, Figure I3, Figure I4, Figure J1, and Figure K1. “replication.html” produces output (e.g., figures, statistical output) for all of the scripts featured in the .Rmd file.